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EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"

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Re: EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"

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Post by jeroenhd »

mr_mitm wrote: post #107
rswail wrote: post #99

Governments already have everyone's ID, including DOB. They say that the problem is non-adults accessing adult sites and services. So therefore, the sites need to know that users are over 18 (or the selected government age). There should be a standardized government ID service/API that allows a person to let it disclose their age (or other user selected information) to a requesting site/service. That's all that is ne…

The german gov id supports that. They have a PKI and the id is a smart card with a cert and private key on it [0]. It lets you answer the question "are you over 18" with a zero knowledge proof. I guess it only proves you have in your possession a valid id AND know the PIN to it, but that should be fine. France apparently has this, too, according to the article. [0] https://www.personalausweisportal.de/Webs/PA/EN/gove…

This is the technology behind the digital wallet/age verification app. A challenge with these systems is that card readers that actually support this kind of thing are excessively rare and expensive for what they do, especially when used with desktops.

My German isn't that great, but I can't find any sources that state that the German eID can use ZKPs directly. From what I can tell, it uses basic signatures, and the new/upcoming wallet app will take care of ZKP generation. But maybe I'm missing a source in German?

Re: EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"

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Post by EinigeKreise »

miohtama wrote: post #356
padjo wrote: post #169

So a research arm of the European parliament is "the EU" now?

It's funded by the EU budget.

I'm sure you don't think that suffices. Do you extend that thinking to US and any of its national laboratories?

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Post by rcbdev »

ghssds wrote: post #155
rvnx wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's because it's not about the opinion of voters, but about existing political powers that want to retain their power. No matter what you (as population) say it will get implemented. If you don't, then they will put sanctions on Poland, withdraw financial partnerships, etc. Like with migrants, they are going to be sent there, even if Polish people vote against. No matter if you are in favor or against, raising the t…

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What exactly is your issue? Please enlighten us on what qualifies YOU specifically to tell the veracity of any claim on Polish interior politics.

Re: EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"

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Post by rcbdev »

tgv wrote: post #21
vkou wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes you think they aren't? The Double-Irish-Dutch-Sandwich in particular was cracked down on.

Just the fact that it takes NGOs and journalists to uncover tax evasion practices. The governments and tax offices aren't looking. CumEx was a scandal in 2017, and despite being known since 1992, has only recently led to just a handful of prosecutions.

And CumEx is still being gleefully practiced by some in the upper echelons with smaller values. Literally no-one cares if you're rich and connected, apparently.

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Post by rcbdev »

The EU is losing around €50 billion every year to the fraud-scheme dubbed the VAT carousel (or MITF). The fix would be ridiculously simple, starting with an EU-wide VAT-ID scheme and a modicum of cooperation between financial ministries.

Not one policy maker has ever seemingly cared about this. But VPNs! That'll fix the budget and demographic crises of European nations, for sure.

I'm curious to see how the EU will maneuver it's new long-term financial plan when none of the members can even pay the membership fee soon.

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Post by subscribed »

roncesvalles wrote: post #369
ZetsuBouKyo wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have an extreme slippery slope idea. If they want to protect children, shouldn't they sterilize everyone? Every child born, regardless of wealth will inevitably suffer injury, illness, and psychological setbacks. Therefore, the best way to protect them would be not allowing people to have children. By the way, not having children is also more eco-friendly, because an infinite series simply converges. I wonder if I’…

They should just mandate 1 spouse should stay at home (working remotely or not working) or you must hire a full-time nanny. I'm only half joking. If your kid has enough unsupervised time to be watching porn on a regular basis, wtf is going on?

Yeah, but that means your child cannot have unsupervised sleep or rest time.

Showers will nanny, sleeping with the parent. What next?

But I applaud your only mildly extreme idea, builds on the insanity of these lying tools well.

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Post by samcarter1 »

noisy_boy wrote: post #296
ZetsuBouKyo wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have an extreme slippery slope idea. If they want to protect children, shouldn't they sterilize everyone? Every child born, regardless of wealth will inevitably suffer injury, illness, and psychological setbacks. Therefore, the best way to protect them would be not allowing people to have children. By the way, not having children is also more eco-friendly, because an infinite series simply converges. I wonder if I’…

Forced sterilisations for population control has been a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttawar_forced_sterilisations

Ashen vibes

Re: EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"

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Post by Saline9515 »

u8080 wrote: post #145
nirui wrote: post #109

In case people no longer remember, when China started to require websites to register for a license before be allowed to operate, it was for "protecting the children" too. This simple policy then goes on to silence most individual publisher(/self-media) and consolidated the industry into the hands of the few, with no opportunity left for smaller entrepreneurs. This is arguably much worse than allowing children to wat…

Just a recap how it happened in Russia: 1. First, year ~2015 legal framework was created under disguise of banning pirated media(specifically torrents.ru)(legislative push). State-wide DNS ban introduced. Very easy to circumvent via quering 8.8.8.8 2. Then, having legal basis, govt included extra stuff in banned list(casinos, terrorist orgs, etc)(executive push). IP bans introduced, applied very carefully. 3. Legal e…

France is already at 5! The free world marches on.
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